TXTextControl.TextFrame.Find Method - TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET

TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NETReference GuideTXTextControl NamespaceTextFrame ClassFind Method

Finds a text string in a text frame.

Introduced: 13.0.

Find(String, Int, FindOptions)

C#
VB.NET

public int Find(string text, int start, FindOptions options);

Public Function Find(ByVal text As String, ByVal start As Integer, ByVal options As FindOptions) As Integer

Parameters

Parameter	Description
text	Specifies the text to search for.
start	Specifies the text position where the search starts, beginning with 0. If this value is -1, the search begins at the current text input position.
options	Specifies search options. It can be a combination of the FindOptions values.

Return Value

If the text searched for is found, the method returns the index (zero-based) of the first character of the search string. If the specified text is not found the method returns -1.

Examples

The following example counts all occurrences of the specified string in all text frames of a TX Text Control document.

C#
VB.NET

int position = 0, count = 0;

foreach (TXTextControl.TextFrame tf in textControl1.TextFrames)
{
    for (position=0;
    (position = tf.Find("test", position, TXTextControl.FindOptions.NoHighlight | TXTextControl.FindOptions.NoMessageBox)) != -1;
    count++, position++);
}

Dim position As Integer = 0, count As Integer = 0

For Each tf As TXTextControl.TextFrame In textControl1.TextFrames
    position = 0
    While (position = tf.Find("test", position, TXTextControl.FindOptions.NoHighlight Or TXTextControl.FindOptions.NoMessageBox)) <> -1
        count += 1
        position += 1
    End While
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